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V "PATENYTED MAR.1'7,1903.;

E. T. BASKIN'.

BRUSH.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 7, 1902.

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PATENTED MAR.17, 190s. E. T. BASKIN,

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UNITED STATES ATENT Fries.

EDWIN T. BASKIN, OF INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 722,666, dated March 17, 1903.

Application filed April 7, 1902. Serial No. 101.640. (No model.) f

To all whont it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWIN T. BASKIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Independence, in the county of Jackson and State of Missouri, have invented new and useful Improvements in Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to brooms and to longhandled brushes.

My invention consists, first, in passing the bunches of stock or material transversely through the block instead of up and down in the usual manner; second, in making a brush in two or more sections for heavy work, each section having a separate block; third, in a novel clamp for holding together the blocks-of the brush, so that a brush of any required thickness may be made.

The advantage of passing the brush-stock through the block transversely will be understood from the specification and stated hereinafter.

The object of having a plurality of blocks in one brush is to provide a thick brush in which the stock will be solid and practically homogeneous, and this plurality of blocks-is a necessary result of the novel manner in which I pass the stock through the blocks.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a brush or broom embodying my invention, the handle being broken ofi. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, of the handle-casting detached. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the inner side of one of the sections or halves of the brush. Fig. 4: is a transverse section of a brush and its clamp, taken on a line corresponding to line IV IV of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse section of a complete brush, taken on a line corresponding to line V V of Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a section through a portion of one of the blocks, taken on line 'VI of Fig. 3. Fig. 7 represents a handle-casting designed especially for brooms, while the handle-casting shown in Fig. 2 is adapted for whitewash-brushes, roofingbrushes, &c. Fig.-- 8 is a top plan view of the middle portions of the blocks, the ends being broken away.

In the brush illustrated in the drawings two blocks 4 and 4: are employed. These blocks are separable from each other, but

the bolts 2 3.

when in use are held together by a clamp composed of a handle-casting 5 6 and a pair of T-bolts 2 3. The handle -.casting comprises a socket portion 5 and two oppositelyextending T-shaped arms 6 and 6. At the respectiveends of each arm 6 are. two clamping-bosses 7, which fit in recesses 8 in the tops of the blocks 4. Through a hole in each arm 6 passes a T-bolt 2 3. These bolts extend between the blocks 4 in grooves 9, cut for the purpose, and on the inner face of each end of each cross-piece 3 is a clampingboss 10. These bosses 10 enter sockets 12, provided therefor in the blocks 4. All of the bosses 7 and 10 are drawn into their sockets by nuts 13 on the bolts 2 3. Thus when the nuts are tight the blocks 1 are held together by the combined action of the arms 6 and For brushes the socket 5' of the handle-casting will be oblique, as shown in Fig. 2. For brooms it willbe perpendicular to the arms 6, as shown in Fig. 7.

Figs. 3 and 6 illustrate the direction in which the bunches of stock pass through each block. It will'be seen that the stock passes transversely through theblock and preferably in an oblique direction, as shown in Fig. 6. By passing each bunch of stock only once through a hole, as shown, any sharp bending of the bristles is obviated and the binding-wires 14 are placed at a distance from the bends 15, so that the stock is not liable to be cut thereby. The oblique direction of the holes through the blocks is better adapted for certain kinds of brushes than for others.

Any required number of sections may be assembled to form one brush or broom, and handle-castings with arms of differentlengths provided with bolts having cross-pieces of difierent lengths may be employed to clamp the sections together. I

In the adjacent faces ,of the two middle blocks 4 or in each block when there are but two I cut a recess 16. The two recesses 16 when placed together form a continuation of the socket in the handle-casting 5 6, so that the handle may be extended through said casting into the socket formed by said recesses and will be braced thereby, so that when the broom is doing heavy duty a part of the strain will be taken from the socket pair of T-bolts passing through said arms I portion of the handle-casting and borne by respectively, said bolts having projections the arms 6 and bosses 7. thereon entering said recesses 12, and said I5 Having now fully described my invention, arms having projections thereon entering 5 what I claim as new, and desire to secure by said recesses 8; substantially as described.

Letters Patent of the United States, is- In testimony whereof I affix my signature In a brush or broom, a plurality of blocks, in the presence of two Witnesses.

each block having transverse holes therein,

bristles passed once through each of said EDWIN BASKIN' 10 holes, each block having recesses 8 and 12 Witnesses:

therein, and a clamp comprising a handle- M. L. LANGE, casting provided with T-shaped arms and a K. M. IMBODEN. 

